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  1. Albion

    Sale of 43 Catholic church properties to settle abuse victims claims

    Maybe it's time to recap. Who here did that--the part I've highlighted above in red?? The discussion here has concerned 43 properties having been sold by the Catholic Church in order to pay judgments resulting from sexual abuse claims against the Church.
  2. Albion

    Sale of 43 Catholic church properties to settle abuse victims claims

    There are always exceptions, but it is fundamentally incorrect to try to equate the massive wrongdoing in one organization--the Roman Catholic Church in this case--with scattered events occurring in other church bodies, including statistically inconsequential cults. You wrote..."I've heard of."...
  3. Albion

    Sale of 43 Catholic church properties to settle abuse victims claims

    That is true. However, it has not been on the scale experienced in the Roman Catholic Church, nor can you minimize the extent of the wrongdoing in her midst by comparing it against the sins of a stray pastor, here or there, who belongs to a different church, or by playing the "everyone likes to...
  4. Albion

    Sale of 43 Catholic church properties to settle abuse victims claims

    Not really a new phenomenon, is it? All sorts of Catholic Church properties have been sold in recent years in order to meet judgments resulting from sexual abuse committed by the Church's clergy or staff. This one does appear to involve quite a large number of properties, however.
  5. Albion

    Nebulous here

    Yes, I agree that you were asked. However, when you choose to give contradictory replies to those fields (an impossible combination of them, in fact) should you be either surprised or offended at other members asking you for a clarification? Either you are an agnostic OR you believe the tenets...
  6. Albion

    Nebulous here

    It doesn't just sound like a contradiction; it is a contradiction. And you volunteered both replies. That being the case, I'm sure you can appreciate how other members were interested to know which version of our new member is the correct one. :) But it's not that either profile is going to...
  7. Albion

    Unborn child counted as a passenger?

    Then there's no conclusion to be drawn about the identity of the unborn child so far as the people who wrote the regulations are concerned.. Why don't we just wait until her appeal is decided? ;)
  8. Albion

    Unborn child counted as a passenger?

    But the legislation/rules concerning car pooling or ride sharing takes no account of whether or not anyone is pregnant. You have to assess this situation while keeping in mind the purpose of the people who wrote the law or who are administering it. Is there someone sitting in the passenger...
  9. Albion

    How often do you share your faith?

    It seems as though I share my faith fairly often at times, but infrequently at other times. I think it depends on what the occasion is. I am not a fan of injecting religion into conversations or situations that don't really open that door, but neither do I shy away from sharing my...
  10. Albion

    Unborn child counted as a passenger?

    No, it isn't. That's what I was attempting to explain. I'm sorry if I didn't do it very well. That line of thought STILL doesn't rescue your argument. A mannequin doesn't amount to either "passengers," "fetuses," OR children. On another thread, you replied to a post by saying, "I don't shop...
  11. Albion

    Unborn child counted as a passenger?

    Naaa. The fact is that the regulation about using the HOV lane when the driver is alone uses a different test. It is concerned with ride-sharing and limiting the number of cars on the road and does not have any interest in defining when life begins, nor does the language of the law make any...
  12. Albion

    You don’t see kids doing anymore

    It may be just as you have explained. I have lived in the city and also in the suburbs, but not in a rural area. Therefore, I feel confident about what I reported with regards to the first two (although I suppose different cities might be different), but it could be that there are reasons why...
  13. Albion

    You don’t see kids doing anymore

    With or without guns, I almost never see neighborhood kids playing together. No tag, no hide and seek, not even playing lawn games or bike-riding. Everything is either done online or it's a supervised activity like Little League sports, etc.
  14. Albion

    The earth is flat !

    Well, there are about forty verses in the Bible that are considered proof texts for this matter, so there's no lack of Scriptural information. But even if one Bible version translates the original word as circle and another takes liberties by using the English word globe, it's still the case...
  15. Albion

    The earth is flat !

    By accidentally bumping into the Western Hemisphere and thinking it was India? Hardly. His contention had been that the Earth is smaller than other people thought, not that he'd prove it to be round. Your mistaken idea about Columbus is covered in some of the information online (of which there...
  16. Albion

    The earth is flat !

    It might be possible to argue that the Catholic Church prolonged society's misunderstanding of the shape of the planet as being flat, but not that we have the Catholic Church to thank for revealing the spherical shape of Earth. For the correct view, we can thank a variety of fairly famous...
  17. Albion

    What I Expect In Heaven

    That's very true. And it doesn't look as though "soul sleep" is our destiny, either. We will, I think, be ushered into a wondrous existence that none of us can imagine while we are still in this life. That's why the Scriptural references are positive but not spelled out in detail.
  18. Albion

    10-year-old girl travels to Indiana for abortion

    "Arguably" being the key word there. So what's "arguably too strict?" The pro-abortion crowd is emphatic that it's any moment before every part of the child leaves the birth canal--and possibly some minutes or even longer afterwards while killing the child is debated. Is that a reasonable...
  19. Albion

    10-year-old girl travels to Indiana for abortion

    Dear Twaddle, I kinda doubted that you could be serious with that previous post. I mean...calling a human child who's already old enough to have working body parts, etc. a mere "zygote." LOL
  20. Albion

    10-year-old girl travels to Indiana for abortion

    Ordinarily, society considers a person who is almost certainly going to be killed if there is no intervention to be the one most in need of protection. The other party here may be psychologically impacted (as you suggested) but is not likely to lose her life thanks to a procedure that she...
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